"the Attorney General, one of the six members of the Executive Department. Of these offices all are elected by the voters in statewide elections except the Secretary of State, who is nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. The Secretary of State administers the Texas Election Code, maintains public filings, and is the keeper of the State Seal of Texas. The Secretary of State also issues appointments for notaries public. The first Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, Stephen F. Austin, was appointed by Texas President Sam Houston in 1836. Since then, Texas became a state"
"Stephen F. Austin Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American empresario. Known as the ""Father of Texas"", and the founder of Texas, he led the second, and ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States to the region in 1825. Born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri, Austin served in the Missouri territorial legislature before moving to Arkansas Territory and later Louisiana. His father, Moses Austin, received an empresario grant from Spain to settle Texas. After Moses Austin's death in 1821, Stephen Austin won recognition of"
"Richard Austin (colonist) Richard Austin (1598–1645) was an early puritan colonist who landed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts on 16 May 1638 on board a ship called the ""Bevis"". He was the immigrant paternal English ancestor and great-great-great grandfather of Stephen F. Austin, empresario, considered the ""Father of Texas"" and founder of Texas. Richard (Jr.) was born in 1598 to Richard Austin (Sr.) and his wife Annis (of unknown maiden surname) in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, and died in 1645 in Charleston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Richard (Jr.) was buried in Watertown, Massachusetts. Richard Austin is the immigrant ancestor of a family named ""Austin"""
"(father—biography published by Trinity University Press), Abia Brown (grandfather), Joseph Sharp (great grandfather), Isaac Sharp (great, great grandfather), Anthony Sharp (great, great, great grandfather—biography published by Stanford University Press). Accordingly, history records noteworthy social contribution in each generation of Stephen's family dating back to the early seventeenth century. Stephen F. Austin Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American empresario. Known as the ""Father of Texas"", and the founder of Texas, he led the second, and ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States to the region in"
"at Hampshire, England. and they had 2 sons: Richard Austin (colonist) Richard Austin (1598–1645) was an early puritan colonist who landed in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts on 16 May 1638 on board a ship called the ""Bevis"". He was the immigrant paternal English ancestor and great-great-great grandfather of Stephen F. Austin, empresario, considered the ""Father of Texas"" and founder of Texas. Richard (Jr.) was born in 1598 to Richard Austin (Sr.) and his wife Annis (of unknown maiden surname) in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, and died in 1645 in Charleston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Richard (Jr.) was buried in Watertown, Massachusetts. Richard Austin is"
"James E.B. Austin James Elijah Brown Austin (October 3, 1803 – August 14, 1829) was a Texian settler and brother of empresario Stephen F. Austin, ""The Father of Texas."" Counted also as one of the Old Three Hundred, he is listed in Spanish and Mexican records as ""Santiago E.B. Austin"". James and Stephen F. Austin are both brothers of Emily Margaret Brown Austin. Born in Missouri, James attended high school in Washington, Connecticut before joining Stephen in Texas in December, 1821. Three years later, having established residence, he was granted title to three leagues west of the Brazos River, including"
"is two founding fathers of the Republic of Texas and future signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836, José Antonio Navarro and José Francisco Ruiz, took part in the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition. Although the United States officially renounced that claim as part of the Transcontinental Treaty with Spain in 1819, many Americans continued to believe that Texas should belong to their nation, and over the next decade the United States made several offers to purchase the region. Following the Mexican War of Independence, Texas became part of Mexico. Under the Constitution of 1824, which defined the country as a"
"near the present-day city of Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto. They captured Santa Anna and forced him to sign the Treaties of Velasco, ending the war. The 1st Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia (now West Columbia). It overturned the Mexican prohibition of slavery, although it allowed slaveholders to free their slaves if they desired. Stephen F. Austin, known as the ""Father of Texas"", died December 27, 1836, after serving two months as Secretary of State for the new Republic. In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg,"
"the Republic of Texas. It was incorporated under the name ""Waterloo"". Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the ""Father of Texas"" and the republic's first secretary of state. Waterloo, Texas Waterloo was the original name for the city of Austin, Texas, located in Travis County in the central part of the state. After Republic of Texas Vice President Mirabeau B. Lamar visited the area during a buffalo-hunting expedition between 1837 and 1838, he proposed that the republic's capital, then located in Houston, be relocated to an area situated on the north bank"
"oppose the Santa Anna regime (but stopped short of declaring independence from Mexico). On March 1, 1836 the Convention of 1836 came to order, and the next day declared independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas. The second Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia (now West Columbia). Stephen F. Austin, known as the ""Father of Texas"", died December 27, 1836, after serving two months as Secretary of State for the new Republic. In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia), before President Sam Houston moved"
"Spanish horses. With his brother, he opposed the Fredonian Rebellion of 1827. James married Eliza Martha Westall March 20, 1828. He named his son Stephen F. Austin Jr. James died in New Orleans of yellow fever. James E.B. Austin James Elijah Brown Austin (October 3, 1803 – August 14, 1829) was a Texian settler and brother of empresario Stephen F. Austin, ""The Father of Texas."" Counted also as one of the Old Three Hundred, he is listed in Spanish and Mexican records as ""Santiago E.B. Austin"". James and Stephen F. Austin are both brothers of Emily Margaret Brown Austin. Born"
"the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1836, Texians, with a majority of Anglo-American settlers, gained independence from Mexico and formed the Republic of Texas. In 1839, John Neely Bryan surveyed the area around present-day Dallas. He established a permanent settlement near the Trinity River named Dallas in 1841. The origin of the name is uncertain. The official historical marker states it was named after Vice President George M. Dallas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, this is disputed. Other potential theories for the origin include his brother, Commodore Alexander James Dallas, as well as brothers Walter R. Dallas or James"
"including conservative Republican Greg Abbott as governor. History of Texas The recorded history of Texas begins with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas in 1519, who found the region populated by numerous Native American tribes. The Native Americans' ancestors had been there for more than 10,000 years as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady. During the period of recorded history from A.D. 1519 to 1848, all or parts of Texas were claimed by five countries: France, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United"
"even their owner could emancipate them without the consent of Congress, while the Congress itself was not allowed to make laws affecting the slave trade or to declare emancipation. Section 9 also established that: ""No free person of African descent, either in whole or in part, shall be permitted to reside permanently in the Republic, without the consent of Congress"". The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia (now West Columbia). Stephen F. Austin, often referred to as the ""Father of Texas,"" died on December 27, 1836, after serving just two months as the"
"local folklore, Stephen F. Austin, the ""father of Texas"" for whom the new capital city was named, negotiated a boundary treaty with the local Native Americans at the site of the present-day Treaty Oak after a few settlers were killed in raids. After the republic purchased several hundred acres to establish the city, Lamar renamed it in honor of Stephen F. Austin in March 1839. The city's original name is honored by local businesses such as Waterloo Ice House and Waterloo Records, as well as Waterloo Park downtown. Lamar tapped Judge Edwin Waller to direct the planning and construction of"
"the first English-speaking colonies along the Brazos and was founded by Stephen F. Austin at San Felipe de Austin. In 1836, Texas declared independence from Mexico at Washington-on-the-Brazos, a settlement in now Washington County that is known as ""the birthplace of Texas"". Brazos River was also the scene of a battle between the Texas Navy and Mexican Navy during the Texas Revolution. Texas Navy ship ""Independence"" was defeated by one Mexican vessel. It is unclear when it was first named by European explorers, since it was often confused with the Colorado River not far to the south, but it was"
"one possible namesake for Dallas, Texas; his father and brother are other possible namesakes of the Texas city. His daughter, Sophia Burrell Dallas, married on April 4, 1805 Richard Bache, Jr., the son of Richard Bache, Sr. and Sarah Franklin Bache. His father was a marine insurance underwriter and importer in Philadelphia who served as United States Postmaster General from 1776 to 1782. His mother, known as Sally, was the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and his common-law wife, Deborah Read. Alexander J. Dallas (statesman) Alexander James Dallas (June 21, 1759"
"A Tribute to Courage A Tribute to Courage monument is a statue of Sam Houston located in Huntsville, Texas (where Sam Houston lived and died), which is 65 miles north of the city of Houston (named in his honor). Sam Houston is one of the founding fathers of Texas. He led the army of Texas during their War for Independence from Mexico in 1836, including the victory at San Jacinto (about 100 miles from the statue) where Texas won her independence by defeating Mexican President Santa Ana in the field. The statue by sculptor David Adickes is 67 feet tall"
"Texas judge. The men's father, William Pope Duval, was a long-time Territorial Governor of Florida. John Crittenden Duval John Crittenden Duval (1816–1897) was an American writer of Texas literature. He has been noted as being the first Texas man of letters and was dubbed the ""Father of Texas Literature"" by J. Frank Dobie. His ""Early Times in Texas"" was initially published serially in 1867 in ""Burke's Weekly"" (Macon, Georgia) and was finally published in book form in 1892. The story, which became a Texas classic, recounted Duval's escape from the Goliad Massacre, in which his own brother Burr H. Duval"
"fulfill his dream to colonize Texas. Stephen led the colony to a now-sovereign Mexico in 1825, and in time, the settlers demanded autonomy and later won independence from Mexico under President Antonio López de Santa Anna, thereby establishing the Republic of Texas. Moses Austin was born October 4, 1761 to Elias Austin and Eunice Phelps Austin in Durham, Connecticut. In 1784, he moved to Philadelphia to enter the dry goods business with his brother, Stephen. He then moved to Richmond, Virginia to open a second dry goods store. In 1785, he married into the affluent iron mining family of Mary"
"his alias from having once been a Texas Ranger. During their mixed history, a distinct Ranger tradition has evolved; their cultural significance to Texians and later Texans is such that they are legally protected against disbandment. There is a museum dedicated to the Texas Rangers in Waco, Texas. The rangers were founded in 1823 when Stephen F. Austin, known as the Father of Texas, employed ten men to act as rangers to protect 600 to 700 newly settled families who arrived in Texas following the Mexican War of Independence. While there is some discussion as to when Austin actually employed"
"were not buried until 1822 when José Félix Trespalacios, the first governor of Coahuila y Tejas under the newly established United Mexican States, ordered a detachment of soldiers to gather their bones and bury them honorably under an oak tree that grew on the battlefield. Some of Guttierrez-Magee participants were sons of American revolutionaries or had fought with Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and of the few who survived, some fought again during the second Texas Revolution in 1835–36. José Antonio Navarro, a founding father of Texas and José Francisco Ruiz, both future signers of the 1836 Texas"
"Moses Austin Moses Austin (October 4, 1761 – June 10, 1821) was an American businessman and pioneer who played a large part in the development of the lead industry in the early United States. He was the father of Stephen F. Austin, one of the earliest American settlers of Texas, which was at the time part of Mexico. After receiving a land grant from the Spanish Crown in 1820, Moses Austin planned to be the first to establish an Anglo-American settlement in Spanish Texas, but he died before his dream was realized. On his deathbed, he pleaded his son to"
"Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas) Stephen F. Austin High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas and is named after Stephen F. Austin, who helped lead American settlement of Texas, and who is widely regarded as ""The Father of Texas."" The school happens to be only miles from Austin's original colony in present-day Fort Bend County. Some areas of Sugar Land, Windsor Estates, and the western portion of the community of New Territory are zoned to Austin. On previous occasions employee housing units of the Jester State Prison Farm (including Jester"
"create. in protest, Zavala resigned his post in France and renounced Santa Anna, who then ordered Zavala to return to Mexico City. Zavala, for his own safety, moved his family to Texas where he owned land. He arrived in Texas in 1835 by steamboat near the mouth of the Brazos River and briefly shared a house with his good friend Stephen F. Austin who would later be called ""the Father of Texas"". Other than Austin, the only other Texan he knew before arriving was David G. Burnet who later became Interim President of Texas. Zavala had known Burnet in New"
"History of Texas The recorded history of Texas begins with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas in 1519, who found the region populated by numerous Native American tribes. The Native Americans' ancestors had been there for more than 10,000 years as evidenced by the discovery of the remains of prehistoric Leanderthal Lady. During the period of recorded history from A.D. 1519 to 1848, all or parts of Texas were claimed by five countries: France, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America—as well as the secessionist"
"were two different visions of the future of Texas: one as a state of the United States and the other as an independent republic. [[Sam Houston]] promoted the first, as he felt that the newly independent country, lacking hard currency and still facing threats from Mexico, could not survive on its own. The other was promoted by second Texas president [[Mirabeau B. Lamar]], who felt that it was Texas's destiny to be a nation that extended from the [[Louisiana]] border to the Pacific Ocean. For this reason, Lamar is considered the father of Texas nationalism. The Republic under Lamar incurred"
"Kemp. The Heroes of San Jacinto. Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1932. Bryan died in 1895 and is buried in the Old Independence Cemetery Moses Austin Bryan Moses Austin Bryan (September 25, 1817 – March 16, 1895) was an early settler of Texas. Moses served as Secretary for his uncle, Stephen F. Austin. His mother was Emily Austin Perry and his father was James Bryan. Born in Herculaneum, Missouri, Moses moved to Texas several months before his mothers. Moses was named for Moses Austin, his grandfather, who had initially obtained permission from Mexico to serve as an empresario to settle Texas."
"in Texas. Austin died before he could bring his plan of recruiting American settlers for the land to fruition, but his son, Stephen F. Austin, brought over 300 American families into Texas. This started the steady trend of migration from the United States into the Texas frontier. Austin's colony was the most successful of several colonies authorized by the Mexican government. The Mexican government intended the new settlers to act as a buffer between the Tejano residents and the Comanches, but the non-Hispanic colonists tended to settle where there was decent farmland and trade connections with American Louisiana, which the"
"24 1810 Sep 8 1877 Founder of Dallas Texas."" In 1954, a white granite marker honoring the Dallas founder was erected by the James Butler Bonham chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in Pioneer Cemetery (Pioneer Plaza). A large marker bearing the name ""Bryan"" and displaying two ""Citizen of the Republic of Texas"" medallions honoring John Neely Bryan and his wife stands in Riverside Cemetery at Wichita Falls, Texas. It overlooks the graves of Margaret Beeman Bryan (1825-1919), her son John Neely Bryan, Jr. (1846-1926), and other family members. A Texas Historical Marker ""Beeman Memorial Cemetery,"" located"
"""The Father of Texas is no more; the first pioneer of the wilderness has departed."" Originally, Austin was buried at Gulf Prairie Cemetery in Brazoria County, Texas. In 1910 Austin's body was reinterred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Austin never married, nor did he have any children. He bequeathed all his land, titles, and possessions, to his married sister, Emily Austin Perry. The late actor John Carter played Austin in the 1969 episode ""Here Stands Bailey"" of the syndicated television series ""Death Valley Days"", hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. In the story line,"
"restored and is now the centerpiece of Texas City's Heritage Park. Frank B. Davison Frank Burt Davison (1855–1935) is considered one of the founding fathers of Texas City, Texas, its first postmaster and grocer. Transferred from Michigan in 1891 as resident manager of the Texas City Improvement Company, he moved to a location within what would be the city in 1892. He established its first Post Office in 1893, opened its first general store, and became a director of its first bank, the Texas City State Bank. He also founded a real estate firm, Davison and Smith. In 1911, the"
"delegates who signed the Texas Order of Secession in 1861, and served as aide-de-camp to General Henry McCulloch. The Col. Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson Plantation in Salado is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bell County, Texas. Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson was born in Giles County, Tennessee, on August 23, 1820. Robertson was from a family of accomplished individuals. He was the son of Frances King and empresario Sterling Clack Robertson, the founder of Robertson's Colony in Texas. Empresario Robertson never married, but he acknowledged his son with King. Young Elijah's grandfather was Captain Elijah Robertson,"